Posted on 02/10/2023 11:36:48 AM PST by simpson96
State Rep. Mary E. Flowers (D-Chicago) has sponsored a change to provide for a right for “culturally sensitive” caregivers in a medical setting.
The bill under consideration is HB1021.
“Amends the Medical Patient Rights Act. Provides that each patient has the right to receive care from a medical professional who is culturally sensitive to the patient's life experience,” the bill’s synopsis reads.
The bill would amend the Medical Patient Rights Act. The full text of the bill elaborates.
“The right of each patient to receive care from a medical professional who is culturally sensitive to the patient's life experience,” the bill reads.
The amendment is the last part of the bill. It is unclear how success of such an amendment would be measured.
Flowers, 71, is the longest-serving Black legislator in the state’s history. She currently serves in House leadership as deputy majority leader.
“I hope my legacy will be that people will remember me for trying to help someone along the way,” she told Capital News Illinois. “I would like for people to know that I gave it my best.”
Flowers as of late has been enmeshed in race-based legislation. She has also put forth legislation this year mandating a 40-book reading list for all Illinois public school students. That legislation is an old draft that the previous General Assembly failed to enact.
Critics say that the bill's excessive reading requirements would be problematic because they would supplant other nonbiased reading that is already incorporated in lesson plans.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagocitywire.com ...
Does this mean I can be guaranteed a doctor who speaks intelligible English?
oh goodie...now we can segregate again....one hospital will have more diversity hires and another won’t and all the other people will go to the more diversity hospital.....
The “culturally sensitive medical exam”:
Ask the patient “Are you homo sapien?”
If they answer “Yes,” then you are sufficiently ‘culturally sensitive.’”
We will now adjourn to the Planet of the Apes.
What is next? Culturally sensitive limits on which wheels you can put on your car?
What about good doctors and good nurses?
“Does this mean I can be guaranteed a doctor who speaks intelligible English?”
No! Because that would be raycist!
Somehow I do not think that will mean that a white patient can ask for a white doctor who speaks English.
Does this apply to white people too?
Pure communist totalitarianism.
“oh goodie...now we can segregate again”
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Back in the day it was white people wanting segregation, nowadays it seems like more back people are pushing things in that direction. They might want to be careful of what they wish for...
Cool! So I can demand a White Male top of his medical class from a top medical university, because that is the only choice that is culturally sensitive to me!
Never mind that the “culturally sensitive” doctor doesn’t know a tongue depressor from a scalpel, as long as he’s PC, that’s all that matters. (sarc)
“Well the patient died, but hey, at least the doctor was culturally sensitive.”
I don’t care if the doc is ‘white’ or not. Most educated Africans I’ve known speak excellent English.
The Asians are the ones who are so often difficult to understand; and I had a podiatrist from the Philippines once who hadn’t even mastered the medical jargon of her own specialization.
It’d be nice if my neurologist could speak English without the nurse interpreting for me
I still think Valarie Jarrett is white. LOL
WTF does this word-salad even mean?
I eagerly await the comparison of death rates between properly educated doctors and voodoo shaman doctors…
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